The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-15
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


fifteen million dollars. and his income at eighty
thousand dollars month.
ELLA WHEELER. the poetess sings the dumb
bells for half hour before breakfast every
morning. She is also fond of a long walk.
BELLE BOYD. the rebel spy, is lecturing in
Nebraska Her subject matter is composed
mainly of war "reminiscences She is almost 90
years old.
SIR DINIsHAw MANocKYoE PETIT. Parsee
mill-owner of Bombay, has given away million
dollars for various benevolent purposes during
the last twenty years.
bright EYES" has had great success in in
teresting England in the American Indians.
She goes to Scotland the Goth of this month.
She has more invitations TO lecture than she can
accept.
MRS GARFIELD expects to remain in Canada
until the latter part of the present month She
will then return to her Cleveland homo. and, it
is said, begin arrangements for the nuptials OF
her daughter Mollie and J. Stanley Brown.
BECAUSE the custom house people inspected
Mrs. Frank Leslies baggage when she returned
from Europe last Friday and found some dutia-
bic articles. the lady publisher promises to begin
free-trade crusade against the government
Mr.. BJoRKsTEIN. the Swede. who has been
singing at Newport this summer at private
houses. has received good prices for his enter
tainment He charges 5000 for singing at an
evening gathering and 800 when he waroles in
the morning.
A YOUTH nine years Of age. who disappeared
from his home at Wilmington, o.. thirteen
months ago. has Just been heard from at Cane
Town, Africa. He writes to his father that he
started out with $50, and 'has resolved to go
around the world"
MARY TUCKER, a New Haven girl CT sweet
nineteen, has gone Miss MorosiEo several times
better. In addition 70 clipping with negro
coachman she dyed her skin with a liquid of
sort. in order that the marriage might be
promptly performed.
Mrs MOORE. who some ten years ago pub
lished volume of poems at Grand Rapids.
Mich. and was burlesqued and pronounced the
Sweet Singer of Michigan" by the humorous
press of the country, is now in charge of post
Office in the peninsular district of that State
BRET HARTE has grown so gray that those
who have not seen him since he left this country
to accept the Glasgow consulate would hardly
recognize him now. His hair, which is rather
long and lies in masses on his forehead, is snow
white. while his mustache. which is very heavy,
Is still streaked with brown.
ONE painful result of the depreciation OF Bal
timore e Ohio stock will be the serious Grip
ping of the Johns Hopkins Unlversity's re-
sources. That institution holds IL 900 shares Of
the stock. from which 1t has derived steady
income of $136. 900. It is probable that much of
this income will be lost by the tumble in values.
THE manager of a Los Angeles newspaper has
sent out the following notice postal card:
1.-The realesta boom has robbed us of our edi-
tor, printer and Office boy, and the manager hav-
ing opened a real-estate Office it has become
necessary to suspend the publication or this
Journal until all hands have become million
aires, which of course will be in the near future.
Until then. fraternaliy yours
COLONEL CASEY, the army engineer in charge
os the construction of the Washington monu-
snent, has submitted to the monument commits
sion plans for a plumber of white-marble houses
to surround the base of the shaft and serve as
Offices 1t is thought that their presence will
add much to the plcturesqueness of the sur
roundings and heighten the effect to people who
may visit the great shaft. The houses will be
begun next spring.
MANY people will be surprised to learn that
Sam Jones, the revivalist, has decided to make
Washington his permanent abiding-place The
fact is, the people of Washington have never
taken kindl to the Jones Small mode Of saving
sinners, and the eccentric eloquence of these
men has never had much effect at the capital
However, Jones has decided to settle in Wash
ington and, perhaps, lay perm anent siege to that
unimpressibe city.
LYMAN TRUMBULL, the famous ex-senator, is
living quietly at Oakland, ILL.,, taking of
his garden and his law practice. His brother
and his son live near him. He does not look
much older than he did fifteen years ago, when
Mast SO often sketched his strong and intellect
ual face. His law practice is enormous, and is
said to be worth $50. 900 year There not
half a dozen lawyers in the West who can com
mand fees as large as Lyman Trumbulls.
SIGNoR CRIsPI. the new Premier of Italy. is
said to be eminenty democratic, in the best
sense OK that word But he wants disjoint-
ed democracy, that word is generally under
stood on the Continent; he wants democracy
with order and dignity Individually he is very
simple in his habits. His table may have the
best OF yiands for others-for himself he is
simple, modest, and temperate in his eating and
drinking His house in Rome is fitted with
luxury and taste, and his residence in Naples.
in its tasteful decorations and in its solidity of
exterior and interior, surpasses every other
private residence in that city. 1t is edifce
entirely original, both to its facade and to
its internal arrangements, and no doubt is con-
cepton of his mind, and not that of his archi-
tect. In the frescoes of his spacious drawing
room there depicted by the first artists the
scenes of the ampaigns OF Sicily with Carl
baidi and the glorious Thousand" of the year
1860 Every room displays artistic taste. with
out OVERRIDING and overloading and the
vases are all of the very first class.